Example sentences of "[pron] [det] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | I , I , a hairdresser told me that years ago Elaine . |
| 2 | These fish have had a special place in my heart ever since I first kept them some years ago , and they are naturally a shoaling fish . |
| 3 | Did you know one of my very oldest friends ( family knew mine before I was born ) is a W cousin but he was said to get no reply when he wrote to them some years ago . |
| 4 | Well you should y I I I er these la these these labels are so difficult to fit because if you say , Moving to the right , you then have to show me what policies the government is pursuing and you 'll probably find that I either play the part in thinking off argu arguing for them some years before some of my colleagues . |
| 5 | The one person who should have been with her was absent , having ( as Aunt Nessy had told me some years before in bewilderment , and with a valiantly suppressed trembling of the lip ) written to say that she never wanted to see her again . |
| 6 | I have read my Foucault , I am aware of the conceptual shortcomings of a timeless , essentialist homosexual identity , I might even want to take the step of putting quotations marks around the word ‘ gay ’ — but the man who queerbashed me some years ago did not put quotation marks around his fists . |
| 7 | One of my assets in journalism , as Fred Workman told me some years later , was the habit of creating stories and features by developing an idea and then taking the necessary steps to work it into an acceptable feature . |
| 8 | The difficulty a low Christology poses for feminists was brought home to me some years ago in attending a eucharistic liturgy , which I believe had been written by Carter Heyward , whose work I shall shortly mention . |
| 9 | It took me some years after reading economics at Cambridge to form the view that there was no substitute in a free society for the market-place as the most efficient means for encouraging production and for ensuring its distribution . |
| 10 | er actually who are all in front , mostly from Stanton which I represent , they have made their views known to me some years ago , er this might happen , erm I 'm very glad that you have responded now to their concerns as well as the concerns of the villages and , and this paper does mark significant erm success co-operation between a lot of people involved and for that reason I welcome it , I would ask if it becomes be prepared to make it six months instead of three months please . |
| 11 | Throughout my many years in the travel industry , I have always believed tourism has an important part to play in the spreading of understanding between countries , as well as being a catalyst for economic development . |
| 12 | The vicar , Charles Fry , taught me elementary Greek on Saturdays in my latter years at school , and in return I wrote some letters at his dictation , for which he generously gave me a shilling an hour . |
| 13 | The CANZ series , which this years sees the Canadians hosted by Otago ( Dunedin , March 22 ) , North Harbour ( Auckland , March 25 ) , North Auckland ( Whangarei , March 28 ) and Waikato ( Hamilton , March 31 ) is going to provide an interesting test for a squad that features eight original World Cup choices . |
| 14 | Next door , in the house on the right , someone had been watching the visitor 's arrival from the side of an upstairs window , a middle-aged woman with a startling mass of red hair piled high above a powdered face with a well rouged mouth and plucked and pencilled eyebrows , a woman dressed in a dark crimson gown , of the kind which some years before would have been described in fashionable circles as ‘ tea gowns ’ . |
| 15 | In general the move towards wage supplementation in the rural South and East enabled the old Poor Law just about to cope with the problem of subsisting the poor in a period of unprecedentedly high bread prices , during which some years can only be described as desperate . |
| 16 | They may pay a high price for their few years of glory with injury problems in later life and will probably never enjoy the relative prosperity of their first working years again . |
| 17 | And Froyle , Kingsley and Selborne wards ‘ where so many have spent their latter years in comfort with the warmth and care of the family of the hospital surrounding them . ’ |
| 18 | It gave him even more pleasure in their latter years to see his parents ' joy at their children 's happiness , Peter 's included . |
| 19 | Indeed , the basic British attitude had been summed up admirably by Churchill himself many years earlier when he wrote , in an American periodical in 1930 , ‘ We see nothing but good and hope in a richer , freer , more contented European commonalty . |
| 20 | Thus in its latter years the Soviet Union was constitutionally a mainstream presidential system . |
| 21 | What influenced Hincmar most ( though his description idealised it a little ) was the regime of Charles the Bald , especially its latter years . |
| 22 | The patination of the wood and the delightful patchwork of sheet-iron repairs testify to its many years of service . |
| 23 | These were home to founders of the Pilgrim Father Movement , which many years later saw its followers making their epic voyage to America aboard the Mayflower . |
| 24 | He climbed them sadly until finally he reached a low corridor , which many years ago had been decorated in dark brown : the paint had been flaking off for years . |
| 25 | Before the meeting they celebrated the 70th birthday of churchwarden Rosemary Paxton and to mark the occasion and her many years of service to the church presented her with a basket of flowers . |
| 26 | It 's all very well keeping mentally flexible and all the rest of the who-har , but if you , er , my , my mother stopped and said to her many years ago , she said , you do n't look your age , you do n't act your age , you do n't sound your age , you do n't think your age , but you are your age , and this is absolutely true , as you grow older , nothing will stop the fact that your arteries get a little harder , so that , you know , that you get raised blood pressure quite easily if your agitated and you are , for some reason you , you have to puff a lot more , I was reading about this just recently , and these are changes that take place whatever you do , you can exercise , and you can take vitamins and you can keep your weight down , but you age . |
| 27 | Only later on will the Queen be the focus of full attention rather in the way that Queen Victoria was in her latter years . |
| 28 | She believed herself to be ‘ pursued by a malign and inexorable fate ’ , which , although aided by her hasty , unrealistic plans , does seem to have dogged her latter years . |
| 29 | It is also about a period of recent history , the 1950s , and about the way in which those years shaped individual lives and collective ideas . |
| 30 | Here , and probably only from the air , it is possible to make out a large area , still recovering from a heather fire which several years ago set alight the peaty turf which burned below the surface for several weeks . |